Award-winning actors Bradley Cooper and Michael Douglas will headline the second iteration of the TCM Classic Film Festival: Pop Up x 92NY on January 31, 2026, with “TCM + 92NY Love NYC.” After a sold-out inaugural event, Turner Classic Movies is reprising their collaboration with the iconic 92nd Street Y for a celebration of cinematic east-coast excellency, with programming showcasing the Big Apple on the big screen, highlighting filmmakers and films that put NYC in the spotlight.
“TCM + 92NY Love NYC,” led by TCM hosts Ben Mankiewicz, Alicia Malone, and Eddie Muller will feature three film presentations, with Cooper introducing the film that forever changed his perspective on filmmaking, the three-part anthology New York Stories and Douglas in conversation about his emblematic turn as Gordan Gekko that won him an Oscar in the ‘80s greed-fueled Wall Street. An evening special presentation will be announced at a later date.
“After our incredible first TCM Classic Film Festival NYC Pop-Up, we are thrilled to once again collaborate with The 92nd Street Y, this year with an authentically New York themed slate of programming, welcoming the powerhouse talents and perspectives of Bradley Cooper and Michael Douglas to the delight of our East Coast classic film fans,” says Genevieve McGillicuddy, VP of Enterprises and Strategic Partnerships. “This year’s presentations delve into the cinematic wonders of the city that never sleeps, illuminating the dynamo artistry of two exemplary films that showcase the unmatched energy of the Big Apple, and reminding audiences why New York City is a character unto itself.”
“We are honored to join TCM in hosting this amazing all-day festival that will celebrate the iconic city that The 92nd Street Y has called home for over 150 years,” says Seth Pinsky, CEO of The 92nd Street Y. “Bringing these seminal New York City films back to the big screen, along with the actors who brought them to life or were deeply influenced by them, is a thrill for everyone in the 92NY community.”
The return of the NYC Pop-Up cements the east coast expansion of the signature fan-favorite TCM Classic Film Festival which attracts thousands of classic movie fans from around the globe for screenings of the greatest films ever made as they were meant to be seen: on the big screen, with the people who made them, in the world’s most historic movie theatres.
Programming details as follows for Saturday, January 31, 2026:
BRADLEY COOPER INTRODUCES NEW YORK STORIES (1989) – 1:00PM
Directed by Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen
The first episode of this three-part anthology film, Martin Scorsese’s “Life Lessons,” was a revelation for filmmaker and actor Bradley Cooper. It tells of abstract painter Lionel Dobie (Nick Nolte), who struggles to create works for an upcoming gallery show while navigating a fractured romantic relationship with his young assistant (Rosanna Arquette), a self-doubting painter who is herself drawn to a successful young performance artist (Steve Buscemi). Punctuated by emotion-drenched rock ‘n’ roll and opera tracks, Scorsese’s short film jumps between the paint-splattered, whiskey-soaked grime of industrial Soho lofts and the tuxedoed Upper East Side soirees where artists must mingle with rich patrons to make their living—an allegory for the show business world in which Scorsese works. Above all, it depicts the intoxication artists experience when putting paint to canvas. “You make art because you have to,” says Lionel. “Because you’ve got no choice. Read Gordon S. Miller’s review of the Blu-ray.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS INTRODUCES WALL STREET (1987) – 4:30PM
Directed by Oliver Stone
Michael Douglas embodied the ruthless extremes of 1980s capitalism with his Oscar-winning portrayal of investor Gordon Gekko, the coldly calculating corporate raider who takes eager young stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) under his wing. “There’s no nobility in poverty anymore,” Bud tells his working-class dad (real-life father Martin Sheen), before embarking on a series of ethical compromises in the pursuit of quick wealth, adding an art-savvy interior designer (Daryl Hannah) to his portfolio along the way. Writer-director Oliver Stone was inspired by his own father, a longtime Wall St. broker, and several real-world financiers when he delivered this sharply critical cautionary tale, which photographs the rarified air of lower Manhattan in amber-tinted, smoke-stained hues. But the film’s enduring image is that of Douglas’s steely-eyed Gekko, who hungrily consumes businesses—as well as his friends and rivals—like platefuls of blood-red steak tartare.
Tickets are now on sale at https://www.92ny.org/TCM.
